The Handy Handbook of Harrowing Events

9781869445294

The Handy Handbook for Harrowing Events is a procedural text that explores several unwanted scenarios and steps to solve them. The book also discusses text connections, planning a procedural text, and features of a procedural text.

Some text is presented as a list or series of steps.  A variety of sentence types is used.  Illustrations support and enhance the text. Text boxes call attention to literary features such as similes and prompt the use of comprehension strategies, such as questioning, predicting, and clarifying.

The vocabulary reflects the everyday speech of children.

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